If I Can Tell You The Story

In A Given Scene I May Know Nothing More Than How It's Supposed To End, Most Of The Time Not Even That. Scenes Are Improvised. A Character Does Or Says Something, And With As Much Spontaneity And Schizophrenia As I Can Muster, Another Character Responds. In This Way, Everything I Write Is Spontaneous Chain Reaction And I'm Running Around Playing Leapfrog In My Brain Trying To "be" All My People.

If I Can Tell You The Story From Beginning To End In Five Minutes, I'm Ready To Start Writing.

You Don't Write About The Horrors Of War. No. You Write About A Kid's Burnt Socks Lying In The Road.

Tremble, All Ye Oppressors Of The World!

If You're Writing A Book That Takes Place In New York In The Moment, You Can't Not Write About 9-11; You Can't Not Integrate It. My Main Character's View Is The Statue Of Liberty And The Trade Center. It Doesn't Have To Take Over, But It Has To Be Acknowledged.